Best Worst Server Name Awards Compendium
Check out the complete compendium of server name submissions from our recent Best Worst Server Name Awards competition.
September 27, 2003
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Submitted By: James Curran
Server Function: SQL Server
Reasoning Behind Name: Leader of the Decepticons (Transformers)
Server Name: Megatron
Submitted By: James Curran
Server Function: web application development server
Reasoning Behind Name: Leader of the Dinobots (Transformers)
Server Name: Grimlock
Submitted By: Dave Smart
Server Function: email server
Reasoning Behind Name: owner had star trek on his brains
Server Name: mercury
Submitted By: Drew Hunt
Server Function: Establishes VPN connections to the corporate network from exterior clients.
Reasoning Behind Name: Reference to Star Trek species that assimilates other cultures and races into their own ("Resistance is futile")
Server Name: borg
Submitted By: John Orleanski
Server Function: software build environment
Reasoning Behind Name: Only the most elegant, sleekest, sexiest, independent available
Server Name: EmmaPeel
Submitted By: Tom Robinson
Server Function: it's our IBM WebSphere server
Reasoning Behind Name: cones are both grand and silly - Maxwell Smart's "cone of silence", ice cream, pyramid power etc.
Server Name: webcone
Submitted By: Jeff Meadows
Server Function: backup other servers.
Reasoning Behind Name: this is part of a cartoon scheme that also includes Rocky, and Scooby is there too.....
Server Name: Bullwinkle
Submitted By: Dave Clendenan
Server Function: primary development build machine - named by QA manager
Reasoning Behind Name: self-evident
Server Name: slacker
Submitted By: Debbie Ojala
Server Function: file server
Reasoning Behind Name: reference to the 3 stooges of course
Server Name: Shemp
Submitted By: Ron Crowe
Server Function: Lead network server, other place names for other servers
Reasoning Behind Name: Central server of my network, the last bastion of good in Middle Earth (Tolkien)
Server Name: Minastirith (and Rivendell, etc), Mordor for spam/AV filter server...
Submitted By: Brett Upton
Server Function: BDS to the PDS server Yogi
Reasoning Behind Name: Yogi Bear's friend
Server Name: BooBoo
Submitted By: Dawn Ahner
Server Function: Was PDC when network was established, BAS has now been retired
Reasoning Behind Name: Big Ass Server - The "bert" came from the naming scheme of the other servers which were all a Dilbert line, to include, Dogbert, Catbert, Dilbert etc.
Server Name: BAS Bert
Submitted By: Barry Hite
Server Function:
Reasoning Behind Name: All of this particular sites servers were named after cartoon characters!
Server Name: Scrappy Doo
Submitted By: Dorian Hernandez
Server Function: Computational fluid dynamics calculations and visualizations
Reasoning Behind Name: Named after IBM's 'Deep Blue' supercomputer, because it was huge, and mostly purple...but the darn underscore messed up the DNS entry!!!
Server Name: deep_purple
Submitted By: John Bennett
Server Function: Oracle
Reasoning Behind Name: Remote server
Server Name: Area51
Submitted By: Greg McDermott
Server Function: NT4 Dept File Server
Reasoning Behind Name: Star wars reference to something EVIL
Server Name: Deathstar
Painfully Obvious Server Names
Submitted By: Jan Stepka
Server Function: PDA, accounting host
Reasoning Behind Name: Lazy unimaginative installation tech
Server Name: server
Submitted By: Richard Nicolaus
Server Function: File server for a laundromat chain
Reasoning Behind Name: obvious
Server Name: Lint
Submitted By: RoseAnn Sibilio
Server Function: It was the Unix system that customer support logged into to connect with customer systems. However when you needed to telnet/ftp... to the system it could (and did) prove interesting.
Reasoning Behind Name: help
Server Name: help
Submitted By: Cathy Stevenson
Server Function: mostly backups
Reasoning Behind Name: The second server at that zip code location
Server Name: Z54893B
Submitted By: Scott Krahn
Server Function: It is an exchange server
Reasoning Behind Name: BB = Location Code; S = Server: Function and server # 1
Server Name: BBSEXCHANGE1
Submitted By: J.W. Breeden
Server Function: Backup server. No "bossing" at all...
Reasoning Behind Name: God of all
Server Name: Zeus
Submitted By: Alan Wright
Server Function: It does all the "grunt work" like hosting shared CD's
Reasoning Behind Name: Pretty much what it says
Server Name: Grunt
Submitted By: Jose Munoz
Server Function: bogus server
Reasoning Behind Name: just that empty
Server Name: empty
Submitted By: Pam Wales
Server Function: it's our tape backup server
Reasoning Behind Name: just what it sounds like
Server Name: tapeworm
Submitted By: Jeff Steven
Server Function: Scans all inbound and outbound mail for viruses, SMTP relay, name scares other mail relays
Reasoning Behind Name: Virus Wall - Trend Micro VirusWall Mail scanner
Server Name: VWBug
Submitted By: chris dean
Server Function: They are ISP stuff.. like HTTP ... POP3 .. SMTP ..etc...
Reasoning Behind Name: Our company is DONET INC. Dayton ohio premier internet provider we are a ISP and our company is DONET so we have servers called jelly and cinnabon etc :)
Server Name: jelly and cinnabon etc....
Submitted By: Jeff Durham
Server Function: A authentication server for the network access running W2K Pro
Reasoning Behind Name: It is server
Server Name: Server
Submitted By: Randall Cherry
Server Function: Manages law library in a prison.
Reasoning Behind Name: Dark cold prison cells
Server Name: Dungeon
Submitted By: Adam Marsh
Server Function: Testing Server for Development
Reasoning Behind Name: Self Explanatory
Server Name: Crashmaster
Submitted By: Michael Aginsky
Server Function: Novell File Server
Reasoning Behind Name: Someone's Last Name (who was very important to the company)
Server Name: CRUMMY
Submitted By: Mary Nadasi
Server Function: tests the worst case scenarios for our ERP system
Reasoning Behind Name: carrion eater
Server Name: Buzzard
Submitted By: James Curran
Server Function: linux-based web development server
Reasoning Behind Name: A Transformer
Server Name: Doublecross
Submitted By: Christie Toenies
Server Function: Tries to run Exchange and POP mail very inefficiently, I might add
Reasoning Behind Name: Ever see 2001 A Space Odyssey?
Server Name: Hal9001
Submitted By: Calvin Lo
Server Function: DB server
Reasoning Behind Name: we uses Trees as naming convention, but not-so-good 'implied' meaning
Server Name: lemon
Server names requiring parental supervision
Submitted By: John Zukowski
Server Function: Main systems server
Reasoning Behind Name: The machine was always up
Server Name: Viagra
Submitted By: Bren Smith
Server Function:
Reasoning Behind Name: Obvious
Server Name: Three servers, scratch, pick and sniff
Submitted By: Jay Petel
Server Function: System Management control server
Reasoning Behind Name: We avoided getting on that server.
Server Name: your_mom
Submitted By: Greta Nichols
Server Function: Its a backup novell server
Reasoning Behind Name: The hotsite backup server of a Novell server named "galactic"
Server Name: hotgal
Submitted By: Robert Bloudoff
Server Function: DVI voice server
Reasoning Behind Name: Pain in the ass #3
Server Name: PITA 3
Submitted By: Jason Hicks
Server Function: File dumping ground / FTP
Reasoning Behind Name: Waxing the dolphin
Server Name: monkeyspank
Submitted By: Bob Kokinda
Server Function: anti-virus / file share
Reasoning Behind Name: Rumors of previous Admin having S&M fetish
Server Name: Spank
Submitted By: Adam Boness
Server Function: Is the distribution server for our corporate Virus Protection Software.
Reasoning Behind Name: Nuts on a Monkey; Became a common slang name for people coming to ask the IT department questions. "Hey, Monkeynuts! What do you need?"
Server Name: MonkeyNuts
Submitted By: Jeff Chasalow
Server Function: It's our root controller - we just went to active directories
Reasoning Behind Name: 8th planet out from the sun
Server Name: uranus
Submitted By: Ben Jones
Server Function: CHEKS TO MAKE SURE EQUIPMENT IS UP
Reasoning Behind Name: Do I really have to explain?
Server Name: OHSHIT
Submitted By: Jeff Wold
Server Function: A pair of exchange servers, one was mailbox, the other was smtp/owa services
Reasoning Behind Name: a famous cannibal: Alferd Packer. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/MEATpacker.html
Server Name: pair of servers Alferd and Packer
Submitted By: Casey Nielson
Server Function: web server
Reasoning Behind Name: ?
Server Name: spankme
Submitted By: Mike Comeau
Server Function: DOS based network monitor. She will hardware crowbar any non-responsive computer.
Reasoning Behind Name: She's cute, fast, tough and sassy but she can really bite you!
Server Name: Minx
Submitted By: Randell D'Arcy
Server Function: Unreliable print server
Reasoning Behind Name: Don't know if you can print this one but it used to be an unreliable print server at HP in Brussels, Belgium. We had over 192servers, all colorfully named. Marilyn was famous for the wrong reasons. When I asked why Marily? I was told because 'she' keeps going down on us...
Server Name: Marilyn
Submitted By: Matt Kaiser
Server Function: Linux file server
Reasoning Behind Name: A pain in the butt
Server Name: Wedgie
Server names that are just sad
Submitted By: Greg Martin
Server Function: ABUi Net conference server
Reasoning Behind Name: Abui net servers were named after beers. Problem was once we named it Heineken, no one who'd drank one could remember the spelling
Server Name: Heineken
Submitted By: Brad nixon
Server Function: e-mail filter /gateway
Reasoning Behind Name: I guess he had to call it something
Server Name: piglicker
Submitted By: meri shaffer
Server Function: voice engine and databases
Reasoning Behind Name: my ex boss names servers after actresses that he likes
Server Name: Demi, Julia
Submitted By: John LaBella
Server Function: Print Server
Reasoning Behind Name: Because everyone sends out for Pizza
Server Name: Pizza
Submitted By: John Klazon
Server Function: Personal Student machine
Reasoning Behind Name: All dorm Linux PC's at Pitt given vegetable names, IE broccoli, cauliflower, radish
Server Name: broccoli
Submitted By: Eric DeWilde
Server Function: Grumpy was the file server, Dopey was the automated system backup server
Reasoning Behind Name: Named for Dwarfs
Server Name: Grumpy, Dopey
Submitted By: Ihaab Dais
Server Function: Web server
Reasoning Behind Name: An infestation of Australian Wombats. The original system administrator who named the server was a huge fan of Australian wildlife.
Server Name: wombatinfestation
Submitted By: Ian Rae
Server Function: junk mail and antivirus gateway
Reasoning Behind Name: affectionate term for something full of crap
Server Name: Poopsies
Submitted By: Rich Irmischer
Server Function: Used to test software
Reasoning Behind Name: C'mon, everyone knows Mr. T.
Server Name: MR_T
Submitted By: Mark Patchett
Server Function: They were old NetWare 3.x file and print servers
Reasoning Behind Name: Nothing, just names picked from the air
Server Name: Buffy, Spot, Flipper, Sparky
Submitted By: Brian Franke
Server Function: The underscore caused all sorts of compatibility problems with various software packages
Reasoning Behind Name: I guess they could not come up with a better name
Server Name: _fileserver
Submitted By: George Harasemchuk
Server Function: Linux Box Mail Group
Reasoning Behind Name: Nothing takes me down
Server Name: Still Standing
Submitted By: Allan Mocabee
Server Function: file share server for support engineers
Reasoning Behind Name: Allen was for the building name and the nuts was an acronym for Network User Technologists
Server Name: ALLEN-NUTS
Submitted By: David Alan Smith
Server Function: Systems Test Server
Reasoning Behind Name: nothing at all
Server Name: Diaper
Submitted By: Kevin Geary
Server Function: poorly built exchange 5.5 server
Reasoning Behind Name: Name of the boyfriend of the guy who set it up!
Server Name: Leonard
Submitted By: Bob Hayes
Server Function: Video clip server.
Reasoning Behind Name: Joke name during planning that just kind of caught on until it was too late.
Server Name: Klippity-Klips
Submitted By: Brian Cashman
Server Function: Was a web development server; we renamed to Frankenstein shortly afterwards
Reasoning Behind Name: User suggested; she worried us
Server Name: Aroma
Submitted By: Gene H. Freeman
Server Function: Stores information for a 14 node network.
Reasoning Behind Name: We were looking for a name for a server for a new designed network. It was on a night with a new moon. The 56 means nothing.
Server Name: newmoon56
Submitted By: Richard Tester
Server Function: NT Authentication
Reasoning Behind Name: "whack" "whack" paddy "whack"
Server Name: paddy
Submitted By: John LaBella
Server Function: Back up server
Reasoning Behind Name: THis was a PC that in Storage during a relocation. It came back up but everything seemed slower and when opened it was full of cobwebs and dust.
Server Name: Wheezer
Submitted By: Eric Kropf
Server Function: just a workstation, kinda fat and lazy
Reasoning Behind Name: Based on a sesame street theme
Server Name: snuffleupagus
Submitted By: nick fohl
Server Function: accounting package and main server for DEC OpenVMS cluster
Reasoning Behind Name: character from super mario bros.
Server Name: bowser
Submitted By: Robbie Bowkamp
Server Function: Primary Domain Controller
Reasoning Behind Name: The 'BIG" server at "Eagle" Tool and Machine Co.
Server Name: Bigbird
Submitted By: Anthony L. Frqancis
Server Function: Provides access to Electronic Medical records system
Reasoning Behind Name: Practice Partner Server
Server Name: ppserv
Server names that are just cool
Submitted By: George Nezlek
Server Function: communications / internet / firewall - sadly, like the film, the event horizon of a black hole. Data often went in and never came back out, or otherwise disappeared without a trace..
Reasoning Behind Name: data moving faster than the speed of light (it was also the name of a bad sci-fi film)
Server Name: EventHorizon
Submitted By: Derek Dolan
Server Function:
Reasoning Behind Name: Characters from Kevin Smith movies
Server Name: Banky, Holden, Alyssa, Bartleby, Loki, Svenning, etc
Submitted By: Ray Dzek
Server Function: MRTG-RRDTOOL Reports
Reasoning Behind Name: Dead In Dog Years
Server Name: DIDY
Submitted By: John Orleanski
Server Function: software development
Reasoning Behind Name: Only the badest workstation to develop sftw on
Server Name: Morticia
Submitted By: LaMont Turner
Server Function: Domain Controller
Reasoning Behind Name: Do Not Click
Server Name: donotclick
Submitted By: Philip Bierdz
Server Function: This serer was the first server introduced during a major business model conversion for a $40 million dollar company located in Schiller Park, IL.
Reasoning Behind Name: Whitesands is a missile testing range for the military. The blow things up there all the time.
Server Name: Whitesands
Submitted By: Trina L Short
Server Function: The school's web caching server.
Reasoning Behind Name: Named after the famous country singer.
Server Name: JohnnyCache
Submitted By: David Isbell
Server Function: deceased; other servers in family included chaos, bedlam, ataxia, anarchy, enigma, ochlocrary and conundrum
Reasoning Behind Name: so messed up didn't know whether to run, die, hang, trash your files or what...
Server Name: schizoid